Since 1979. I hated gym when I was kid--had no aptitude for organized sports, which is what gym classes seemed to emphasize.
Thanks to Jim Fixx's book, I started with running, then in the early 80s attended a faculty/staff group exercise class at the university where I was working and going to graduate school. I just loved it, but over time, my knees did not love running and high impact aerobic workouts and I had to give those up.
I switched to yoga (home practice and some live classes too) and weight training via Joyce Vedral's books as well as walking and bike riding. I didn't have access to a TV/ VCR until 2000, and that's when I got into video workouts. Some of the ones I did back then I still do, and still love. The majority of the video workouts I do now are yoga. Some are DVDs, others are YouTube. I do weight workouts on my own.
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Betsy
There is no way of telling people they are all walking around shining like the sun--Thomas Merton
People have done all kinds of remarkable things because they thought they could. People routinely fail to do quite ordinary things because they assume they can't--Reinhard Engels
Stay gold, Ponyboy--S.E. Hinton
Pick up your crazy heart and give it one more try--Ryan Bingham
Disclosure: I have a personal relationship with a fitness instructor who has appeared in some videos.
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